(1) Positive Statement
What are you most proud of in your block presentation and/or your senior project? Why?
- Out of everything I did, I'm most proud of my hook video. It was a small project that Isaiah Maylad and I put together but it was able to do it's job within my presentation and it did its job effectively.
(2) Questions to Consider
a. What assessment would you give yourself on your block presentation? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.
AE P AP CR NC
- P: I would give myself a P because I did have a fairly decent presentation. I hit everything I needed to touch on and I met the required time. A P sounds fair to me.
b. What assessment would you give yourself on your overall senior project? Use the component contract to defend that assessment.
AE P AP CR NC
- AE-P+: The reason why I feel I deserve an AE/P+ is because of the fact that I did all of my research checks on time and I did go above and beyond with my independent component projects which took countless hours to complete.
(3) What worked for you in your senior project?
- What definitely worked for me was the opportunity to branch out into the dance industry. It was all because of senior project that I was able to go out and experience things that I've never done before and I was also able to meet new choreographers and dancers that are people that I can now call as friends.
(4) (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your senior project?
- If I could go back and change anything about my senior project, it would be the amount of time that I spent on my IC #1. Although the final product was even more amazing than I expected it to come out, I still feel like if we spent a little bit more time on it, cleaning up some things, then we would've been able to actually go viral.
(5) Finding Value
How has the senior project been helpful to you in your future endeavors? Be specific and use examples.
- Due to senior project I was able to meet connections in the dance industry and my name is now fairly known in the community. My choreography abilities have also greatly improved and the likely that I will be able to even teach my own dance slot in the future is more likely.
1. What is your EQ?
- "What is the most important factor in choreographing a dance piece?"
2. What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
- The most important factor that goes into choreographing a dance piece is the initial connection that you are able to make with a song when first choreographing.
3. What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
- The most important factor that goes into choreographing a dance piece is the amount of power/strength you use to execute each move.
4. List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
- There are several choreographers that are popular and known due to the sole reason that they can hit their movements so hard.
- Some choreographers that would be known for this are Bam Martin, Sorah Yang and Markus Pe Benito.
- By properly hitting hard, you are able to expand the amount of movements you know when choreographing.
- Dancing requires different textures of movements to look good and if you don't know how to hit hard then you won't be able to hit those textures.
- If you can't properly execute then you won't be able to make it into the industry.
- What distinguishes a lot of choreographers from one another is based on how hard they can hit. Some are seen better than others because of this.
5. What printed source best supports your answer?
- Sato, N, H Nunome, and Y Ikegami. "Kinematic
Analysis of Basic Rhythmic Movements of
Hip-hop Dance: Motion Characteristics
Common to Expert Dancers." Journal of
Applied Biomechanics, 31.1 (2015): 1-7.
6. What other source supports your answer?
- Weege, Bettina, Michael N Pham, Todd K
Shackelford, and Bernhard Fink. "Physical
Strength and Dance Attractiveness: Further
Evidence for an Association in Men, but Not
in Women." American Journal of Human
Biology, 27.5 (2015): 728-730.
7. Tie this together with a concluding thought.
- This answer is definitely something that I could relate to because a lot of my own style is solely based on execution. I'm known for using really big and powerful movements and that's why I chose power as my second answer.
1. What are you most proud of in your Lesson 2 Presentation and why?
- I am definitely the most proud of my activity. Even though it seemed like a skeptical idea at first, I still went through with it and it went better than I thought. I really felt like it pieced my entire presentation together and it seemed like a good majority of the class was really invested in it as well.
2. a. What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?
b. Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.
- I would give myself a P due to the fact that I met all the P requirements on the contract but I had also gone through my entire presentation without any technical problems, etc.
3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
- What worked best for me in my Lesson 2 was my hook because it really helped me set the stage for what I was going to be talking about regarding emotion when dancing.
4. What didn't work? If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?
- If I could go back, I would definitely revise my organization because at the time I thought I had a pretty solid plan but as I was presenting, it seemed like nothing flowed together.
5. What do you think your answer #2 is going to be?
- I believe that my answer #2 is going to be, "The amount of strength/power you put into your movements."
1. What are you most proud of in your lesson, and why?
- The one thing that I am the most proud of in my lesson is the fact that I got more passionate about my topic than I thought I would. Right before my presentation I was so nervous that I kept forgetting everything I was going to say but as soon as I started, all the words just came to me. I knew exactly what to say without even thinking about it.
2. What assessment would you give yourself on your lesson? Explain why you earned that grade using evidence from the component contract.
- I do believe that I should receive at least a P. I not only made the time requirement but everything I said was in a way related to my topic. I used no "filler" information, and I also went really in depth as to how dance is so much more than what people think of it as. Hopefully after my presentation, a new found appreciation for dance among my peers would've sparked.
3. If you could go back, what would you change about your lesson? How can you use that knowledge to give a better Lesson 2?
- If I were to go back, I would definitely change the amount of confidence I gave off when I presented. It was evident that I was nervous but even though I had known my information and had prepared everything I was going to say beforehand, I still ended up stuttering a lot during the presentation. This is going to help me in my next presentation because it shows me that I'm going to need to rehearse a lot more so that my words could come out more naturally and therefore solving my stuttering problem.
